Now imagine scaling up a single costly, wasteful, and flawed project to tens of billions of dollars in award decisions at NIH, NSF + more that are currently made by domain experts and at risk - via proposed OMB rules - of being made by political officials to fulfill administration priorities.

ADA leaders were forcibly removed from their own meeting for sharing copies of an ADA OpEd critical of Jay Bhattacharya. Thanks to you it's now got >125,000 views. As CDC interim director, Jay also blocked publication of this paper because it showed that COVID vaccines work. You know what to do.

Climate.us is officially live! After NOAA ended Climate.gov’s day-to-day operations in 2025, former team members built Climate.us to carry that work forward. Their explanations and graphics have always stood out to me as clear, accessible, and transparent. I’m really looking forward to this reboot.

2/ I am proud that, alongside our entire congressional delegation, I was able to deliver over $1 million for critical improvements and enhancements for the Sharp.

1/ The R/V Hugh R. Sharp is a vital asset for Delaware, for our coast, and for our country. When I first visited the the Sharp, the team at the University of Delaware expressed how crucial mid-life improvements to the vessel would be for its continued operation.

A major upheaval in US science funding that runs counter to the direction of Congress and the people. Cuts across NSF to give millions to “X-Labs” which are a new condition to funnel funding to industry with limited oversight and transparency.

François Primeau, a UC Irvine professor, developed mathematical and computational ocean models that helped us understand the ocean's role in global climate. He was killed on his bike by someone driving a car. 🌊

Exclusive: The National Science Foundation is trimming this year’s budgets for hundreds of its traditional basic science programs by roughly 20% to 30%, even though its overall budget is down just 3%. https://scim.ag/4xY2KCm

🥳Something to celebrate: 25 years of ecological time-series studies at the LTER Observatory HAUSGARTEN! As we see right now, it's not easy to sustain time series over long times -especially covering all spheres- yet it's vital to monitor #ClimateChange. @awi.de www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The heat will be brutal, and only ~27% of French homes have air conditioning.

Geo-engineering seems to be forever an attempt to not do the very doable greenhouse-gas reduction things we can do, know how to do, are doing, but not nearly enough. To reject a proven, viable solution in favor of a wild gamble that could create its own catastrophes.

Good morning with good news: Solar overtook gas in Asia to become Asia's third-largest source of electricity! China's exports of solar to Asian countries doubled to 39 GW in March 2026. ~81 GW of planned gas in Asia were cancelled in 2022 & 2023. #energysky www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-sol...

www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/c... Some good news on OOI 💙 While this reads as “problem solved”, many ocean (particularly AMOC) observations are not in calm seas yet. Currently we’re dealing with issues with Canadian moorings. All around, founding is running out and/or uncertain.

The National Science Foundation announced on Thursday that it will pause efforts to remove deep-sea monitoring instruments that collect data critical to understanding climate change and marine ecosystems. The reversal comes after a bipartisan backlash. nyti.ms/4vm1BTt

Good news: The Trump administration is abandoning its plan to dismantle a $368 million ocean monitoring system critical to understanding climate change and marine ecosystems, bowing to a bipartisan backlash on Capitol Hill. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/c...

𝐀𝐭𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 (𝐀𝐌𝐎𝐂) 𝐒𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧/𝐒𝐡𝐮𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧: 𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐝, 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬, 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐎𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 Please submit an abstract to session GC016 at the AGU26 Fall Meeting. Abstracts due 5 Aug 2026. agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/pr...

We are recruiting a postdoctoral researcher in coupled atmosphere–ocean–wave modeling at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The focus of the position is to advance a new Julia based wave mode, establish better coupling methods, and apply those in regional setups.

My latest for @science.org: There's been a lot left out of stories about Ocean Observatories Initiative, which has long faced questions over its cost. But even with that, no one -- including marine institutes in red states -- wanted NSF to make changes without thorough scientific review.

🌊 #ASLO students, get involved! Join the Student Resources & Activities Committee #ASLO_SRAC to help plan events, support travel grants, and build community for students worldwide. Apply here by the deadline of 11 July: www.aslo.org/call-student...

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🚨A new OMB proposal could reshape how U.S. research works.🚨 This would change science as we know it🧪 📢Make your voice heard. Learn more and submit a public comment now! ⬇️ agu.quorum.us/campaign/163...

John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For the Performing Tarps

Mexican fans spot a South Korean fan and immediately adopt him

'by assuming tight coupling between photosynthesis and woody biomass, current earth system models may overestimate long-term carbon sequestration in forests' www.science.org/doi/full/10....

New mid-career scientist positions in NSF Directorate for Geosciences open on Monday June 15, get ready! The application window is likely to be very short and applications will be capped, regardless of field. content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USN... 🌊

Our 2026 Indicators of Global Climate Change paper is out! We find that the human-induced warming was 1.37C in 2025, and the current rate of warming is 0.27C per year, on track to firmly pass 1.5C in about four years: essd.copernicus.org/...

Still all quiet on the #NSF front. No new awards in the past week. REMINDER: We still are hearing of trickles of terminations, suspensions, and money being held back from grantees, which NSF isn't reporting. We need your help - please report! 🧪 grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0...

Researchers, you want to know about this website. 🧪🌊

This thread. Wow. "I could no longer stop the system from auto-inviting "reviewers" with zero relevant expertise. Even worse - the AI began actively revoking the invitations I manually sent out to actual, qualified experts."

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📖🧪Read about FY2027 appropriations updates for NASA, NOAA and NSF👇 thebridge.agu.org/2026/05/26/f... 📣And explore ways you can take action to support science: agu.quorum.us/home/

H1B visas were historically key for postdocs and research scientists (and future PIs and professors) - and the fee threatened to totally derail that pipeline. This is good news.

Ocean observatories are a critical resource for studying climate change and detecting disasters like earthquakes and tsunamis. Trump is erasing years of innovation and advancement. https://www.kuow.org/stories/ocean-observatories-go-dark-off-pacific-northwest-coast

A masterpiece of science communication by Craig McLean, former Chief Scientist of NOAA, in response to the outrageous and dangerous new proposal that would give Trump officials more control over scientific research grants (the OMB debacle) 🧪 youtu.be/WKkRVhwiJAM?...

To see how important US science is, consider measurements of changes in ocean heat content. US data are ~53% of the total. Over half! But removing the US data is worse than randomly removing 80% of the total data, because unlike other countries, the US makes measurements everywhere. 🧪🌊

Every day with this government...

Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

The difference in tone and urgency between AAAS/AGU/etc and the National Academies is rather shocking. Good for the AAAS:

This is incredible. Whoever made the decision to do this should resign immediately.

The study (three or four links away) seems to me to suggest that LLM feedback is sometimes closer to the consensus view, which is unsurprising I guess one question I’d have is whether students either want the consensus view from any given prof or depend on personal feedback from profs to get it

Opinions might differ on this, but my commitment to my students is that every piece of work they submit to me will be read, thought about, and given feedback to by a human being (me). People are missing that students are quickly coming around to a "quality education" meaning "human interaction".

One of the reasons you should join the good doctor @davidho.bsky.social and read Eos—we cover all three of these stories. 1/4 🧵 +melancholy bonus

My german is very poor but I think this article roughly translates to "the United States continues to self-sabotage".

Also flying under the radar is continued funding for the major U.S. contributions to the global Argo profiling float array that provides crucial information on ocean heat and sea-level trends, salinity redistribution, and with BGC Argo ocean chemistry & biology @bgc-argo.bsky.social argo.ucsd.edu

I show this figure in my class about the oceans & the climate. It shows the global coverage of temperature profiles (key to monitor how the ocean is changing) over time. You can see the number creeping up slowly until the early 2000s, when it shoots up when autonomous floats are deployed at scale.